| Bossypants. Tina Fey
| Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From ...More
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| The Phantom of the Opera (Hollywood Archives Series) (v. 1)
| What inspired the film? What inspired Chaney's make-up? What was in the hour of footage cut from the film's release that was considered too horrible for audiences in 1925? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in this book. Includes: complete Press Book; complete shooting script; rare behind the scenes photographs; complete production history from those who were there; Contributions by Mary Philbin ("Christine"), Charles van Enger, and more!
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| The Importance of Being Earnest
| Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act.
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| The Gift of the Magi
| Here is O'Henry's classic tale of love and devotion in a beautiful new gift edition, superbly illustrated and packaged in an elegant slipcase. Full-color illustrations.
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| The Winter's Tale (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
| Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play. Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language. The accounts of William Shakespeare's life, his theater, and the publication of his plays pres...More
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| Idol Dreams
| Idol SirenAt 16 years old, Alicia has made one of the best decisions of her young life since her father and mother left her: She's dropped out of high school and is simply trying and apparently failing at making a life for herself--one on her own terms, that is--by attempting fit in the mold of everyone else. When it becomes clear that the mundane world is not for her, Alicia ventures in another world--the one of entertainment...more specifically singing....When the president of the recently rem...More
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| A Doll's House (Plays for Performance Series)
| Ibsen’s seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora’s slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to this present day. Nicholas Rudall, justly celebrated for his translations of Ibsen, again provides a play of power and speakability.
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| THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG
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| Pygmalion
| This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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| Save the Cat
| This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
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| Hamlet (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)
| Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:Shake...More
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| Falling for Grace
| Contemporary RomanceFormer ballerina Gracie Hart is now known as the Diva of Romance in small town Franklinville, KY. The owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, she lives a quiet life, healing from the tragedy that took not only ballet from her, but her fiance, as well. Who would have guessed that she has no intention of ever falling in love again, no matter how loudly her biological clock keeps ticking?That is, until her new tenants,...More
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| The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
| The Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.”—Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations hav...More
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| The Talented Mr Ripley: Play (Methuen Drama)
| The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous crime novelTomRipley is a criminal with an ambiguous past. He is sent to Italy by awealthy financier to try and coax home the rich man's son. In theprocess Ripley becomes both attracted and seduced, finding the murderthe only way to deal with the situation. From that point Ripley triesto cover up his crime. Patricia Highsmith's beguiling tale of moralityand amorality is given a dramatic rendering by contemporary dramatistPhyllis Nagy, who...More
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| Babbitt
| This epic of the booming 1920s uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. A classic novel about conformity in small-town America--celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue.
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| Mickey Rourke: Wrestling With Demons (Updated & Revised Edition)
| The compelling story of Oscar-nominated and award-winning actor Mickey Rourke’s rollercoaster life and career, from the grimy depths to the dizzy heights of Hollywood. Updated and revised to include details from all of Rourke’s films right up to latest release 'Immortals' as well as the dramas of his personal life. This biography is an essential read for any Mickey fan, as it perfectly captures the charisma of a super talented star who throughout many setbacks, struggles and successes wrestl...More
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| A Woman of No Importance (Library Edition Audio CDs)
| Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the best houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society s narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.
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| A Concise Public Speaking Handbook
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| A history of western music
| This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times.Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis, Lully’s Te Deum, Haydn’s Creation, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma...More
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| A Raisin in the Sun (Thirtieth Anniversary Edition)
| Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new h...More
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